Ph.D. student in Computer Science CS
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Advisor: Dr. Yidan Hu
Research interests: AI Privacy, Differential Privacy, and past topics
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News

Dissertation: I finished the first version of my Ph.D. dissertation “Local Differential Privacy: Refined Mechanism Design and Utility Analysis”. Here are the presentation slides.

PETS'26 • Best Student Paper Award: “Quantifying Classifier Utility under Local Differential Privacy” received the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award.

Publications (selected 1st-author)

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Awards

Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award • PETS Award Committee, March 2026

Artifact Award Runner-up • PETS Artifact Evaluation Committee, August 2025

Outstanding Graduate • Shenzhen University, June 2023

National Scholarship • Ministry of Education, China, September 2022

Biography

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2026 – Present)

  • Research Associate, advised by Dr. Wei Dong

  • Research interests: Differential Privacy

Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, USA (2023 – Present)

Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China (2020 – 2023)

Henan University, Kaifeng, China (2016 – 2020)

Misc

Reviewer for: PETS (2027) • TOIT (2026) • TKDD (2026, 2025) • TASE (2024) • SAS (2024)